…is not somehow, in a pretty obvious way, about class struggle. Hunger Games, The idea was good, but it didn't quite work with Matt Damon, Elysium, and so on and so on. And my idea is that in the horror movies, class struggle is precisely translated as…

…you, you called me your sleeper ego. I wonder what you're going to call me this time. Within the novel, do you think that Matt fits that example that Slavoj had there of of using women in a kind of masturbatory way that in a sense they become objects…

…anti-species time, or it, or a dog, or whatever, whomever you love. Well, in a way, most of the women that Matt meets are interchangeable. They are interchangeable. So they fail as lovers, truly lovers in that sense, because they are just simply…

…not like nothing happens and everything stays in a terrible situation. There is progress and relationships. What strikes me is Matt is a very cynical outsider figure, but he's got very strong friendships, reliable friendships. Apart from the way that he's…

…necessarily the only measure. Just picking up on that question, though, about the kind of self-deceptions in love, it strikes me that Matt, at the beginning of the novel, is suffering from a kind of sentimentality, a kind of unearned emotion, as it were,…

…personal lives, Slavoj in particular, has this helped with your dread existentially? As I understood it, the question was, look, Matt goes through this whole series of relationships and one-night stands and so on. Does it help appease his existential dread?…

…things were different in the past against the idea of Irish American or Italian American. Yeah, exactly. Friend of the show, Matt Brunig, likes to tweet these pictures of, I think, Danish folks in traditional garb that looks very similar to, you know,…

…my duty, let's go on. So I would just say, why the choice there? All right. I am now joined by Russ Zabriglia and Matt McManus, as well as Slavoj Žižek, who is, of course, best known for having written the introduction to this book, Myth and Mayhem, a…

…and more radical left? Oh, yes. I'm on a Facebook thread. That's nothing but insulting her now. Yeah. Sorry, what did you say, Matt? I'm on a Facebook thread where it's nothing but Marxists who are insulting AOC. In fact, they even took issue with her…

…Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, people don't get it in what really dangerous situation we are today. And we have to make, but you, Matt, I think we interrupted you a couple of times. Do you have in your city self something to bring out to express yourself?…

…see our intellectual levels here. Russell is the big intellectual, look, full book of shells behind him. The two of you, Matt and Ben, are so-so, while I have empty shells, I'm different. People, you know, whatever we say in the very materiality…

…actually going to say that last part reminded me. One of the books behind me is one that I co-wrote with Conrad Hamilton, Matt McManus, and Marian Trejo that you wrote an introduction to. That's Myth and Mayhem. And I remember in the introduction to that…

…master, but that he's a clownish, ridiculous comedy of a master. I don't know who a good analyst wrote, I quote Samuel I remember Matt Taibbi had a great line a few weeks ago when a lot of liberals were fainting about the idea that Trump was going to…

…a coup. Fed Secretary Mark Esper, and people were saying, oh my God, he's staffing the Pentagon with his personal loyalist. And Matt Taibbi said, you know, it's not that Trump would morally object to a coup. It's that two minutes into planning it with…

…did you see the old, was it Sean Connery or which movie? And there is the new one, I always forget the title, with Matt Damon, I think, where the elite lives on a... Elysium. So it's either Elysium or global cooperation, if you ask me. It's clear that…

…email, not that you will get an oxym proposal, maybe three finishes or whatever, or even his medicine here, I can send it to Matt, because I didn't want to spend too much time, and much better than now to improvise. I'm ready to send you My text where…

…then. He, you know, this is also for me the problem of some optimists. There is now a new trend of historical optimists from Matt Ridley to, I think, was it Richard Dawkins to some others. which claim we are too fascinated by the present crisis, are we…

…is, as he says, a knife in my hand as part of a cosmic dance is moving in space and as part of the same dance Matt, sorry, your body hits my knife and time for nothing in it, you know. I'm just this totally enlightened observer and so on and so…

…anal, pre-sexual, pre-super-ego, flat universe of where life goes on indefinitely, you know? It's a little bit like in cartoon, in all those Matt Shannon comedies, you know? You can be hit, you can be run over, you stand up, it always goes on. There is…